Where does “-on” come from?

-on (French) comes from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

-on (French): Forming diminutives of things, including some...

Definitions

  1. Forming diminutives of things, including some...

Ancestry of “-on”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greek-όςForms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
2Proto-Hellenic*-os—
3Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “-on”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Ancient Greek -ός →Every word from Proto-Hellenic *-os →